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What does hogshead mean?

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Noun
  1. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52 1/2 imperial gallons; a half pipe.
  2. A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; especially one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.
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The utmost of his generosity to Amhurst, that I ever heard of, was a hogshead of claret!
Then, to repeat my interrogatory, what was you a doing of with the kitten in the hogshead?
Tom finds him hiding in a hogshead behind the old slaughterhouse, and tries to get him to return to the Widow's home.
Once there, she ducked down into the shadows again and hid behind some hogshead barrels as a few sentinels turned the corner and passed by.
People were also smiling at Al, as he trudged up the hill with his accordion on his back and a hogshead of beer at his side.
So he relied largely on claret, buying four hogsheads of 24 dozen bottles of Margaux and one hogshead of Lafite every three months.

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